Pride and Prejudice

Assignment Menu

Directions: You must complete four assignments for this unit. Choose one from each difficulty level, and one from each learning style.

Mastery	Understanding	Self Expressive	Interpersonal
Make a list of 20 unfamiliar vocabulary words from the book. Write the word, a definition, and sentence.	Explain why Mrs. Bennett wanted her daughters to get married so badly. What are three examples of her behavior that illustrated this?	Make a collage from magazines, posters, etc that captures the personality and characteristics of three of the characters. Be prepared to present this to the class with explanations.	What advice would you give Mr. Darcy if you were to meet him at the assembly in Volume I Chapter III? (You know what he does and how he is perceived later in the novel.) How would this advice have changed the events of the novel?
Create a timeline of the novel's major events. Make it accurate and easy to understand. It would helpful if there were illustrations or details included. It would also be good to put it on a long piece of paper or several pieces as needed.	Write a diary for one of the characters. Be sure to include the major events in the novel that involve your character. Try to put yourself in their shoes and show their feelings and their reactions.	Make a collage from magazines, posters, etc that captures the personality and characteristics of three of the characters. Be prepared to present this to the class with explanations. Pretend you are a director/screenwriter for a film version of the book. Choose a scene from the novel to adapt.Write the stage directions, the scenery, the costumes, and the lines for each character involved. Remember that the details are very important.	Interview two married couples that you know. Ask them how they met. Did fall in love easily or were there complications? What were their first impressions of each other? Write up the information and briefly compare it to the novel.
List each character. For each one find three adjectives that Austen uses to describe them in the text. Then choose three adjectives or descriptions of your own for each character. Write a biopoem for each character.	After doing some research about life in the 19th Century (early 1800's to be precise) pick one area that interests you. Write a report about this aspect of the time period with thorough details and relevant information. This will be presented to the class.	Write an imitation. You can either add to events already in the novel where there are holes, or you can write a modern adaptation of the story. Both need to resemble the novel enough to be clearly stemming from Jane Austen's original work	Find three areas of the novel that you do not like (characters, scenes, outcomes etc.). Write a letter to Jane Austen telling her why you do not like them and offer two better alternatives for each one of the areas you disliked.

Elisabeth Thomas, 2000